New single from Arizona's epic prog-pop outfit Wizards of Time

Hidden Shoal Recordings is proud to announce the release of ‘Benjamin’, the second single from Arizona’s epic prog-pop band Wizards of Time’s debut album "Will The Soft Curse Plague On?". The track is available now for free download.

Oct. 25, 2012 - PRLog -- Hidden Shoal Recordings is proud to announce the release of ‘Benjamin’, the second single from Arizona’s epic prog-pop band Wizards of Time (http://music.hiddenshoal.com/artists/wizards-of-time/)’s debut album Will The Soft Curse Plague On?. The track is available now for free download (http://agora.hiddenshoal.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=55) through Hidden Shoal.

While first single ‘Little’s Jingle’ announced Wizards’ more bombastic, riff-driven side, ‘Benjamin’ is achingly reflective. Andrew Levi Hiller intones the devastating transformation of a child into a monster. In the words of Hiller, the song explores “the tumble from sheltered religious teachings into the lightlessness of scorn”. Yet, somehow, the song evolves into something life-affirming and triumphant. How do they do it? Magic. The song glows with a kind of preternatural melancholy and plays with a similar removed narrative intimacy as Sufjan Stevens’ classic ‘John Wayne Gacy Jnr’.

Wizards of Time deftly unleash technicolour art-rock like lightning bolts from their nimble fingers. Progressive without being prog and pop without being pap, the Wizards’ debut release Will The Soft Curse Plague On? is a staggering and unique concept album that weaves a universe-enveloping tapestry of dizzying complexity and emotional depth. They are the music makers, the makers of music, the slingers of sound. They are the Wizards of Time…